By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing some new local TV news and weather image promos from stations around the country. Earlier this week, we shared one ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing some new local TV news and weather image promos from stations around the country. We start the series with ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Monday morning, March 10, at precisely 9:40, a tornado hit WOFL, the Fox-owned affiliate in Orlando. “We had been covering that storm for about an hour,” says ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Increasingly, local TV stations look to local programming options to air during the day instead of syndicated shows. The advantages of local TV station-produced programming is, depending on ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Mahsa Saeidi, a CBS News investigative reporter and licensed attorney, is sending a nationwide scam alert to seniors after airing a story about how a New York woman ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Andy Delancey is the new news director at WPHL, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Philadelphia, Delancey will oversee WPHL’s content and digital content strategies beginning March 31st of this year. ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WOFL, the Fox-owned affiliate in Orlando, finished the 2025 February sweeps ratings period with their 10 p.m. and 11p.m. newscasts rated #1 in Adults 25-54. Both newscasts ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV sports anchors and reporters are known for having lots of energy and being slightly zany. That’s OK with viewers who expect that from their sports ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nick Beres, a reporter and morning news anchor at WTVF, NewsChannel 5, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Nashville, has been at the station since 1995. When he started at WTVF, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On January 31, 2025, a Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, shortly after takeoff, crashed in a neighborhood of Philadelphia, killing everyone on board and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sophia Pollman announced on social media that she’s the new evening anchor on KLKN, Standard Media’s ABC affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. “I am eager to collaborate with an ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In 2021, KFSN, the ABC-owned affiliate in Fresno, produced a documentary, Killer High: The Silent Crisis, about the extremely powerful synthetic opioid, fentanyl. Since then, Killer High ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WVLA and WGMB, the NBC and Fox affiliates in Baton Rouge, branded together as Louisiana First News, have added André Moreau as a news anchor and elevated ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Rick Boone is trading his view of the Gulf of Mexico for the Pacific Ocean. Boone is moving from Gulfport, Mississippi where he was the news director at ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting, is holding its annual NICAR conference – largely attended by data ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Friday, Valentine’s Day, February 14th, a crowd estimated at a million people lined the city streets of Philadelphia for the 8-mile Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Parade ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Don Smith has spent 34 years in the local TV marketing business, working in various roles from writer/producer to manager at stations in Beaumont, Lake Charles, New York ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Friday, Valentine’s Day, February 14th, a crowd estimated at a million people lined the city streets of Philadelphia for the 8-mile Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Parade from Lincoln ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For three weeks in January, wildfires in Los Angeles pushed by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds up to 100 miles per hour killed at least 29 people, forced ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Flora Posteraro, former news anchor and reporter in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre and Johnstown, sat down for an extended interview with Ellen Kolodziej, a reporter at WTXF, Fox 29 ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Josh Helmuth, news anchor and co-managing editor of the morning news on KRDO, the News-Press & Gazette’s ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs, believes there’s an art to ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The idea that an accurate weather forecast helps viewers decide what clothes to wear is a clear benefit not many would argue against. And no matter where you live, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The wildfires in Los Angeles are unprecedented, the most destructive in the city’s history. Watching the coverage on TV, by the national networks and local TV, I ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The CEO of a local company in the Seattle area was considering advertising on television. “This is the first time we’ve ever done TV,” says Peter ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A historic winter storm brought snow to Louisiana and parts of Florida earlier this week. Parts of New Orleans got as much as 10 inches of snow, rivaling ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lilly Cederdahl posted on social media that she’s starting a new chapter as the morning and noon anchor at WLFI in West Lafayette, IN, Allen Media’s station ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Loureen Ayyoub is a poet and a TV news reporter for KPIX, the CBS-owned station in San Francisco. “I’m a news reporter, technically general assignment, but I cover ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jim Dodrill has been named Vice President and General Manager of WTRF, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Wheeling, WV while continuing to serve as VP/GM of WBOY, Nexstar’s NBC and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you wonder how the next generation of local TV news journalists will embrace their profession, you might want to know Maria Vollom. Maria Vollom is a three-year ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ryan Brooker has been named chief photographer, a new position at WZTV, Sinclair’s Fox affiliate in Nashville. Brooker has worked as a photojournalist at WZTV since 2011. Prior ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kelly Hanson’s first day as host of ‘New Day Northwest’ in Seattle is today. ‘New Day Northwest’ is Seattle’s #1 morning talk show where local, national, and international celebrities, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Andrew Gutierrez is the new assistant news director working alongside news director, Olivia Dangler, at Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in St. Louis, KTVI. Gutierrez comes to KTVI from KTTV, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Not many people who work in local TV can say they’ve worked at the same TV station for 44 years. Nancy Johnson is one of them. Nancy Johnson is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Last month, Tegna eliminated all the marketing and creative services staff in favor of centralizing its marketing at 68 television stations in 54 markets. Unconfirmed reports indicate that ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You put a check in the mail to pay your bills and don’t think twice about it. Then you find out your account’s been drained of thousands of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news photogs are real characters in most newsrooms. In a sea of suits and ties, and respectable haircuts, the photogs stand out in t-shirts and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chris Earl, who anchors the evening newscasts at 4, 5 and 10 on KAKE, Lockwood’s ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, is sharing his LinkedIn post about the common ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Before Tegna announced that it was laying off all its creative services and marketing staff at its 68 television stations in 54 markets, and centralizing the marketing, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers made big changes to how fans watch their games — both on TV and on streaming devices — and they have ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Many local TV stations have community campaigns where they collect, clean and give away coats for families and kids in need. I’ve written about some stations that have ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAGA, the Fox-owned affiliate in Atlanta, unveiled the look of their FOX 5 Storm Team with new logo, banners and animations on October 28th during the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sometimes, an opportunity just presents itself. You have two news people anchoring the same newscast with the same last name. If you’re creative enough, you take that ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KRON, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in San Francisco, marked its 75th anniversary on November 15, 2024, by unveiling a revitalized sonic and visual brand identity that honors its ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You need some repairs to be done to your house. So, you google plumbers, roofers, painters, etc. in your neighborhood. You pick ones with good reviews and call ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Callie Starnes found it hard to leave the newsroom when she was named general manager in 2021 at WRCB, Sarkes Tarzian’s NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, according to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com First Coast News, the newsroom of WLTV and WJXX, the NBC and ABC affiliates in Jacksonville owned by Tegna, held an all-day telethon to raise funds during its ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jason Pallante, the Associate Director of On-Air Promotion at FanDuel Sports Network, formerly known as “FOX Sports Florida and FOX Sports Sun”, says in a post ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Brian Trauring, Lilly Broadcasting’s executive vice present, announces his retirement on a LinkedIn post. Trauring started in broadcasting as a radio reporter and announcer in 1974 at ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A weather promo posted on LinkedIn by Jeremiah Banks, a marketing producer at WBTV, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Charlotte, after Hurricane Helene hit the Carolinas, uses examples of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A testimonial promo posted on LinkedIn by Wes Rodda, the marketing director at WXIA, 11 Alive, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Atlanta, uses comments by WXIA viewers to thank ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kelsay Hart is an executive producer for KUTV, Sinclair’s CBS affiliate in Salt Lake City. Prior to that, she was a producer at WLOS, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The 2024 National Edward R. Murrow Award winners have been announced in both the Large and Small Television Market categories. There were 30 winning entries in 15 news ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In April 2024, CBS launched a national weather network to enhance coverage of critical weather stories at both its owned stations and CBS News. “With extreme weather events ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In the local TV news business, on-air talent come and sometimes, they go. Sometimes, circumstances mandate that they just disappear from the air waves, their picture is scrubbed ...
Stephanie Wade joins WLS, the ABC O&O in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. Wade has freelanced at the station since 2021. Wade is a graduate of DePaul University. Stephanie Wade is represented by ...
This is another FREE job openings posted to News Blues as part of our campaign to help TV operators get exposure for NEW job openings. Got a NEW job opening you want to post ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Trapped in the station by fallen trees, offline, with no power, no water and negligible cell phone reception, a team of local broadcasters stayed on air as ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Houston, Dayton and Albuquerque. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a week ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Most people think of Larry Potash as the morning news anchor on WGN in Chicago where he’s held court over a newscast not like any other in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A two-man news crew from WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh, were sent to Asheville the day before Tropical Storm Helene ripped through the North Carolina mountains. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There is research that supports the idea that jumping in the car and going for a ride can reduce stress and calm the nerves. The sense of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The organization formerly known as Promax and now known as GEMA, Global Entertainment Marketing Academy, is continuing its annual awards program recognizing the efforts of local TV stations ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The organization formerly known as Promax and now known as GEMA, Global Entertainment Marketing Academy, is continuing its annual awards program recognizing the efforts of local ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It’s encouraging to see that the organization formerly known as Promax and now known as GEMA, Global Entertainment Marketing Academy, is continuing its annual awards program recognizing the ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, WABC’s “Eyewitness to 9/11: Behind the Lens” documentary was awarded Best Documentary by the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jewell Hillery, WGN News general assignment reporter, has been promoted to co-anchor WGN Saturday Morning News and WGN Sunday Morning News, alongside co-anchor Sean Lewis, beginning Saturday, ...
Broadcast Production Specialist WUCF TV and FM, Central Florida’s public media stations, licensed to the University of Central Florida in Orlando, are seeking a Broadcast Production Specialist II to join their team. This role ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WANF, Atlanta News First, Gray’s CBS affiliate, was named the 2024 Georgia Association of Broadcasters (GAB) Station of the Year in the Large Market category at GAB’s annual ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Seattle, Atlanta and New Haven, Connecticut. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sometimes you can across a news story that shocks and saddens you yet demonstrates how brave and courageous people can be. Here’s a story by KXAS, NBC5 DFW, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com As students return to the classroom in schools over the country, local TV stations have been stepping up to organize and host drives to collect money for ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lana Hinshaw-Klann, a 24-year veteran photojournalist for WBBM, the CBS O&O known as CBS Chicago, used her iPhone to shoot an entire 2-minute plus news package. Hinshaw-Klann says ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There are no roads to Stehekin, Washington, so you can’t drive there directly from Seattle, 140 miles away. But that didn’t stop local TV reporter Leah Pezzetti and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Paul Briggs, general manager of Cox’s ABC affiliate in Orlando, WFTV, announces that Bill Witsik will be joining the WFTV sales team as the new National Sales Manager effective ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lauren Walsh, an anchor/reporter covering sports at WSMV, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Nashville, wrote on LinkedIn that this “is one of my favorite stories I’ve ever done.” That caught ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com LinkedIn is a great place for many local TV news and marketing folks to post recent work, whether that be news stories or promos. The reason station employees post ...
WPIX’s Kirstin Cole’s team in New York has become just latest crew to be attacked in the field, in what has becoming a disturbing and dangerous trend. According to the award winning reporter’s twitter ...
